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标题：TURNING THE TIDES ON THE ULTRA-FAINT DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES: COMA BERENICES AND URSA MAJOR II*
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作者：Ricardo R. Muñoz ; Marla Geha ; Beth Willman 等
期刊名称：The Astronomical journal
印刷版ISSN：0004-6256
电子版ISSN：1538-3881
出版年度：2010
卷号：140
期号：1
DOI：10.1088/0004-6256/140/1/138
语种：English
出版社：American Institute of Physics
摘要：We present deep CFHT/MegaCam photometry of the ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxies: Coma Berenices (ComBer) and Ursa Major II (UMa II). These data extend to r ~ 25, corresponding to 3 mag below the main-sequence turn-offs in these galaxies. We robustly calculate a total luminosity of MV = –3.8 ± 0.6 for ComBer and MV = –3.9 ± 0.5 for UMa II, in agreement with previous results and confirming that these galaxies are among the faintest of the known dwarf satellites of the Milky Way. ComBer shows a fairly regular morphology with no signs of active tidal stripping down to a surface brightness limit of 32.4 mag arcsec–2. Using a maximum likelihood analysis, we calculate the half-light radius of ComBer to be r half = 74 ± 4 pc (5.8 ± 03) and its ellipticity = 0.36 ± 0.04. In contrast, UMa II shows signs of ongoing disruption. We map its morphology down to μ V = 32.6 mag arcsec–2 and found that UMa II is larger than previously determined, extending at least ~600 pc (11 on the sky) and it is also quite elongated with an overall ellipticity of = 0.50 ± 0.2. However, our estimate for the half-light radius, 123 ± 3 pc (14.1 ± 03) is similar to previous results. We discuss the implications of these findings in the context of potential indirect dark matter detections and galaxy formation. We conclude that while ComBer appears to be a stable dwarf galaxy, UMa II shows signs of ongoing tidal interaction.
关键词：dark matter;galaxies: dwarf;galaxies: individual (Coma Berenices; Ursa Major II);Local Group Online-only material: color figures